On Wednesday evening, the feature film „Was von der Liebe bleibt“ by Kanwal Sethi, produced by Rohfilm, celebrated its premiere as part of Filmfest Hamburg.
Ilyas (Serkan Kaya) and Yasemin (Seyneb Saleh) are a couple in love — until Yasemin is shot dead by an unknown assailant in their shared café. The lives of Ilyas and their daughter Senna (Amira Demirkiran) fall completely apart. And when the police begin to link him, and even his murdered wife, to the crime, Ilyas can no longer make sense of the world at all. The longer the suspicions persist, the more he asks himself: was Yasemin really the woman he loved?
A beautiful, finely observed and superbly acted film that tells of love and shows it with all its challenges and in all its beauty.
At the same time, the film carries great political relevance, telling of structural racism without ever foregrounding it. It is simply there, like something ordinary that is part of everyday life. As it is, sadly, for far too many people — and through this manner of storytelling it becomes powerfully tangible. We have to tackle this!
In cinemas from April 2024.
Director: Kanwal Sethi
Production: Rohfilm Productions GmbH
Casting: Ulrike Müller and Beate Kurecki
In the photo, from left: Kanwal Sethi, Amira Demirkiran, Seyneb Saleh and Serkan Kaya